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Akansh Gupta

Verified Expert in Engineering

DevOps Engineer and Developer

Location

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Toptal Member Since

November 10, 2022

Akansh is a DevOps engineer with around four and a half years of experience in the IT industry. He specializes in DevOps, infrastructure as code, configuration management, and CI/CD. Akansh is proficient in container orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes, infrastructure monitoring, and application logging.

Cloud Architecture Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)Amazon RDS Infrastructure as Code (IaC)DevOps Engineer AWS DevOps Prometheus Cloud Migration Terraform DevOps Amazon Web Services (AWS)Kubernetes Helm Distributed Cloud

Portfolio

AppAcuity, Inc.

DevOps, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Marketplace, AWS CloudFormation...

Trade Receivables Discounting Platform

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)...

Fintech Product

Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Terraform, Kubernetes, Vault, GitOps, Azure DevOps...

Experience

Terraform - 5 years DevOps - 5 years Git - 4 years Kubernetes - 4 years Linux - 4 years Bash Script - 4 years Ansible - 4 years Python - 3 years

Availability

Full-time

Preferred Environment

Terraform, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, Python, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ansible, System Administration, Cloud Architecture, CI/CD Pipelines, ELK (Elastic Stack), Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX)

The most amazing...

...thing I've worked on is a widely used podcast application, developed from the ground up, with millions of users in the United States.

Work Experience

DevOps Engineer

2023 - 2023

AppAcuity, Inc.

Migrated CDKTF code state files from a self-managed server to AWS cloud storage through TypeScript for multiple customers. This resulted in removing ad-hoc maintenance of the server/patching and reduced cost.
Designed Terraform HCL code from CDKTF distributed in several modules. Terragrunt was used to make code DRY and allow easy scalability.
Crafted a dedicated Bitbucket pipeline to deploy infrastructure changes orchestrated through Terraform, including security and bug scanning, execution only if valid changes are pushed, Terraform plan, and necessary approvals before applying.

Technologies: DevOps, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Marketplace, AWS CloudFormation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Cloud Services, SOC 2, Kubernetes, Terraform, Terragrunt, TypeScript, Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, Monorepos, AWS NAT Gateway, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Terra, Microservices Architecture, Knative, Scripting

Senior DevOps Engineer

2022 - 2023

Trade Receivables Discounting Platform

Created multi-account, multi-environment setup on AWS using AWS Copilot capable of single-click setup.
Designed serverless architecture and infrastructure for the platform using Amazon ECS, Amazon Aurora, AWS SQS, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS CodePipeline services.
Built a system capable of passing through the network and security VAPT and SOC2 compliance standards.
Used AWS Control Tower and SSO to configure multi-account setup and standardize user management.

Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodePipeline, Amazon RDS, Networking, Datadog, Terraform, SOC 2, Cloud Security, AWS Marketplace, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Fargate, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Containers, Bash, CTO, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), AWS CodeBuild, High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR), Scalability, Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, Amazon API, TCP/IP, AWS Lambda, Monorepos, AWS NAT Gateway, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), PostgreSQL, Microservices Architecture, Scripting

DevOps Engineer

2021 - 2023

Fintech Product

Configured Kubernetes clusters on GCP using Terraform, making them capable of scaling and self-healing.
Configured multiple EKS clusters and various other AWS services to set up the project requirements.
Set up Azure DevOps pipelines and agents for the CI/CD of the microservices.

Technologies: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Terraform, Kubernetes, Vault, GitOps, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Python, Helm, DevOps, Security, Architecture, Amazon Web Services (AWS), CI/CD Pipelines, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Docker, AWS Batch, Amazon EKS, Argo CD, Amazon RDS, Amazon Route 53, Load Balancers, Amazon EC2, Amazon CloudWatch, DNS, Datadog, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Development (CD), SSL, Cloud Deployment, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), TypeScript, AWS CloudFormation, Flask, Scaling, AWS ALB, DevOps Engineer, GitHub, Back-end, Cloud Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Data Protection, GitHub Actions, Autoscaling, Cloud Services, Monitoring, Virtualization, GitLab CI/CD, Shell Scripting, Amazon Firewall, Redis, Auth0, Django, APIs, AWS NLB, Amazon Aurora, DigitalOcean, Snowflake, Kubernetes Operations (kOps), Prisma, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Infrastructure, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure, CircleCI, Solution Architecture, React, AWS CLI, AWS IAM, CloudOps, Cloud Computing, Cloud Migration, Cloud Architecture, Microservices, Leadership, Configuration Management, Google Cloud, .NET, Networking, AWS VPN, Kustomize, AWS Marketplace, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Fargate, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Containers, Bash, .NET Core, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR), Scalability, Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, Amazon API, TCP/IP, Monorepos, AWS NAT Gateway, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Google Workspace, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), PostgreSQL, Microservices Architecture, Scripting

DevOps Engineer

2020 - 2021

Podcast App

Acted as a single DevOps engineer to design and launch a project and received an award in April 2021.
Carried out a cost analysis of the platform to reduce the over-cloud cost by 40%.
Recognized for good work by the client as I was involved with teams to meet demanding deadlines.

Technologies: Linux, Terraform, Kubernetes, Solution Design, Python, Jenkins, Grafana, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana, NGINX, DevOps, Security, Architecture, Amazon Web Services (AWS), RabbitMQ, AWS Lambda, CI/CD Pipelines, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Docker, Amazon EKS, Amazon RDS, Amazon Route 53, Load Balancers, Amazon EC2, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Amazon CloudFront CDN, Docker Hub, API Gateways, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), DNS, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Development (CD), SSL, MySQL, Cloud Deployment, Node.js, JavaScript, Flask, Scaling, AWS ALB, System Architecture, DevOps Engineer, GitHub, Ubuntu, Back-end, AWS Cloud Architecture, Cloud Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Autoscaling, System Administration, Cron, Cloud Services, Monitoring, Virtualization, Shell Scripting, SQL, Amazon Firewall, Testing, Caching, Redis, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Redis Cache, APIs, AWS NLB, Amazon Aurora, Cloudflare, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), AWS ELB, Infrastructure, Solution Architecture, React, AWS CLI, AWS IAM, Cloud Computing, AWS AppSync, Cloud Architecture, Microservices, Leadership, Ansible, Configuration Management, Networking, AWS Marketplace, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Fargate, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Containers, Bash, Talend ETL, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Scalability, Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, Amazon API, TCP/IP, AWS NAT Gateway, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), ELK (Elastic Stack), Helm, Microservices Architecture, Scripting

DevOps Engineer

2019 - 2020

Telecom Shopping

Designed Ansible Playbooks for all the tools applied in the stack like Nginx, Pritunl, Jenkins, Nexus, monitoring and logging stacks, Kafka and ZooKeeper, Apache NiFi, etc.
Designed a single-command setup that created AWS resources and required configuration with Terraform and Ansible on a single application.
Designed customised monitoring templates on Grafana for an in-depth analysis of the stack.

Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Python 3, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Docker, Amazon EC2, Docker Hub, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), MySQL, AWS ALB, DevOps Engineer, AWS Cloud Architecture, Cloud Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Autoscaling, Cloud Services, Monitoring, Virtualization, Shell Scripting, Bitbucket, AWS NLB, Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), Infrastructure, Solution Architecture, AWS CLI, AWS IAM, Packer, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Amazon EKS, Microservices, Configuration Management, Groovy, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Containers, Scalability, Cloud, AWS NAT Gateway, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), AWS Elastic Beanstalk, ELK (Elastic Stack), Helm

DevOps Engineer

2019 - 2020

Car Rental Product

Configured GitLab CI/CD to manage the deployment of the microservices.
Coordinated with a team based in three countries and helped build the architecture and project submission.
Executed the load testing with 5,000+ users per second using the application.

Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Kong, Amazon RDS, AWS Lambda, Grafana, Prometheus, Elasticsearch, NGINX, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Docker, Amazon EKS, GitLab, Load Balancers, Amazon EC2, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Docker Hub, API Gateways, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Development (CD), MySQL, Cloud Deployment, JavaScript, Scaling, AWS ALB, System Architecture, DevOps Engineer, Ubuntu, AWS Cloud Architecture, Cloud Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Autoscaling, System Administration, Cron, Cloud Services, Monitoring, Virtualization, GitLab CI/CD, Shell Scripting, SQL, HAProxy, QA Testing, Testing, Caching, Redis, Redis Cache, AWS NLB, Amazon Aurora, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Infrastructure, Java, Solution Architecture, AWS CLI, AWS IAM, CloudOps, Packer, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Microservices, Leadership, Ansible, Configuration Management, Groovy, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Containers, Bash, Scalability, Apache HTTP Server, Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, TCP/IP, AWS NAT Gateway, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), ELK (Elastic Stack), Microservices Architecture, Scripting

Experience

Fintech App

One of the largest online platforms for working capital to help companies, their suppliers, and their customers gain greater control over their cash flow on demand when needed. I worked on developing its products and services by creating Terraform templates and Ansible playbooks for provisioning on cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP. I also developed Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions templates for CI/CD, Helm charts, and Kubernetes manifests. Furthermore, I managed secrets with Vault for application use and generation of temporary credentials, managed central monitoring and logging with Datadog, and developed scripts in Python or Shell to automate sanitary tasks.

Podcast App

https://harkaudio.com/

As a DevOps engineer, I built a podcast application, securing the infrastructure over the AWS cloud platform with Terraform and configuring the Amazon EKS cluster to deploy microservices with Kong as an API gateway. I also created CI/CD pipelines for Node.js projects using Jenkins, monitored infrastructure and alerts with Prometheus and Grafana, performed application logging using ELK (Elastic Stack), and completed cost optimization in the AWS cloud.

Telecom Product Platform

http://www.axiomtelecom.com

An application for delivering telecom products in UAE. I worked on securing the application's infrastructure and creating Terraform templates and Ansible playbooks for providing the application on the AWS cloud platform. I also performed infrastructure monitoring and alerting and application logging using Elastic Stack.

Car Rental App

http://www.lumirental.com/en

A car rental application in Saudi Arabia. I configured and monitored the application, created CI/CD pipelines for Maven jobs and Android and iOS apps using Jenkins, and configured the EKS cluster to deploy microservices with Kong. I also conducted monitoring and alerting of infrastructure and ensured application logging with Elastic Stack.

Fintech App for Trade Receivables Discounting Platform

A digital platform to facilitate the discount for MSMEs and provide hassle-free financing to grow. Worked on designing and setting up the back-end infrastructure for the application on AWS cloud platform. The application was designed on a serverless framework for optimized resource and cost usage. The platform passed the SOC2 compliance audit as well as VAPT.

Skills

Languages

Python, Bash Script, Bash, SQL, Groovy, Python 3, JavaScript, TypeScript, Snowflake, Java, Terra

Tools

Terraform, Jenkins, Helm, Git, Ansible, Grafana, Kibana, Amazon EKS, GitLab CI/CD, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), AWS CLI, AWS IAM, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Kong, Logstash, NGINX, ELK (Elastic Stack), AWS Batch, GitLab, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Amazon CloudFront CDN, Docker Hub, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), AWS CloudFormation, GitHub, Cron, Amazon Firewall, Bitbucket, CircleCI, CloudOps, Packer, AWS Fargate, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), AWS CodeBuild, Vault, SonarQube, VPN, RabbitMQ, Beanstalk, Subversion (SVN), Nagios, Auth0, Prisma, AWS ELB, AWS AppSync, Talend ETL, Apache HTTP Server

Paradigms

Azure DevOps, DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Microservices Architecture, Continuous Development (CD), Microservices, Testing

Platforms

Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Docker, Amazon EC2, AWS NLB, AWS ALB, Ubuntu, DigitalOcean, Apache Kafka, OpenShift, Azure, Blockchain, AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Storage

Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, InfluxDB, Datadog, MySQL, Cloud Deployment, Redis, Amazon Aurora, Google Cloud, Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis Cache, IBM Db2

Other

AWS DevOps, Prometheus, Architecture, CI/CD Pipelines, Amazon RDS, Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), DevOps Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Services, Monitoring, Shell Scripting, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure, Solution Architecture, Cloud Computing, Cloud Migration, Containers, Cloud, AWS NAT Gateway, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Scripting, GitOps, Solution Design, Networking, Velero, AWS Certified Solution Architect, System Administration, Amazon Route 53, Load Balancers, SSL, Scaling, System Architecture, Back-end, AWS Cloud Architecture, Cloud Security, GitHub Actions, Autoscaling, Virtualization, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Leadership, Configuration Management, AWS VPN, Kustomize, SOC 2, AWS Marketplace, High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR), Scalability, Enterprise Architecture, TCP/IP, Monorepos, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Algorithms, Security, Argo CD, API Gateways, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), DNS, Data Protection, HAProxy, QA Testing, Caching, APIs, Cloudflare, Kubernetes Operations (kOps), Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), AWS Certified Developer, AWS CodePipeline, AWS Control Tower, CTO, Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX), Google Workspace, Distributed Cloud, Knative

Libraries/APIs

Node.js, Amazon API, React, TensorFlow Deep Learning Library (TFLearn), TensorFlow, Terragrunt

Frameworks

Flask, Django, Ruby on Rails (RoR), .NET, .NET Core

Certifications

JANUARY 2021 - JUNE 2024

AWS Solutions Architect Associate

Amazon Web Services

NOVEMBER 2017 - PRESENT

MTA Networking Fundamentals

Microsoft

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